Mop wringer



Jan. 20, 1925. 1,523,751

E. CA RETTE MOP WRINGER Original Filed Oct. 22, 1923 //v VEN T01? frnesf Care/Te,

' ATTOR 5y.

Patented Jan. 20, 1925,

UNITED STATES nannsr CAR-ETTE, or STE. MAR-IE, QUEBEC, CANADA.

MOP WRINGER.

Application filed October 22, 1923, Serial No' 670,0?7.

To uZZ w/mm may concern:

Be it known that I, EnNnsT Cimnrrn, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Ste. Marie, in the county of Beauce, Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mop VVringers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a true, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to mop wringers of the class in which the wring'er is set upon a pail and the wringing or squeezing is performed by a manually operated device.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a means of automatically setting the device in constant readiness for the wringing operation. Another objectis to provide a device of this character, which can be made very economically and yet possess the necessary quality of resistance, while not being cumbersome and heavy, and altogether being easy to operate.

Referring to the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a. general perspective view of the device according to my invention.

Figure 2 is a side view of same, partly in section, showing its general construction.

Figure 3 is a top view of the same, taken on line 33 of Figure 2, and

Figure 4 is also a top view of the same, taken on line -1 1 of Figure 2.

Similar reference characters represent similar parts in all of the views.

A pail or support 1, preferably made of metal and shaped to represent the frustum of a cone, with its larger diameter: being the bottom 2 thereof, carries the wringing mechanism on its top 3, and has a foot-board 4:, secured at its lower side, for the convenience of the operator, to hold the pail 1 firmly during the wringing operation.

The wringing mechanism consists of a flilll'lBWOl'li made of a circular band 5 resting upon and fastened to the top 3, by means of several brackets 6; another circular band 7 is distanced above and firmly held parallel with band 5, by means of two uprights 8 and 9 set apart from one another. Inter mediately disposed of the bands 5 and 7, evenly spaced from one another, are a plurality of semi-circular bars 10, in vertical alignment with bands 5, and 7, and fixed to the uprights 8 and Positioned between Renewed December 15, 1924.

the bars 10 and the bands 5 and 7, and circularly shaped, are prongs 11 extending from the upright 9, to which they are mounted in order to move horizontally, and travelling in that aforesaid position for approximately three-fourths of the entire circle where they are externally held together by a vertical cross-piece 12, to which is attached the end of a belt 13. Another vertical crosspiece 141 is fixed to the other ends of the prongs 11 adjacent the upright 9. Projecting outwardly and fixed to the center of upright 9, on the side of the device, opposite the foot-board 4, and directly in line with the fastened belt 13, is a forked member 15 having its ends 16 vertically disposed in relation to each other, carrying a bushing 17 therebetween, firmly held by a vertical shaft 18, passing through the said ends 16, the said shaft 18 being bent upwardly to form an offset handle 19. The belt 13 is tautly attached to the bushing 17, when the prongs 11 are symmetrically in vertical alignment with the bars 10. A strong flat spring 20 is fixed at about the center of the prong 11 and extends outwardly towards the member 15, where it is also fixed to its forked base 21. Loosely attached at the upper end of the uprights 8 and 9, is a suitable handle 22, for the purpose of handling theentire device.

To operate the said device, it will be obvious that the foot placed upon the footboard at will maintain the device in steady position. The spring 20 will force the prongs 11 into the position shown in Figure 3, the cross-piece 12 abutting against the bars 10 preventing further movement of tension upon the belt 13. By turning the handle 19, which may be arranged to revolve in any direction desired, the belt 13 will enroll itself onto the fixed bushing 17, and the prongs 11 will move outwardly in the direction of the forked member 15, as indicated by the position shown in Figure at; the former circle, formed by the band 7, in Figure 3, is then reduced into the space 23 shown in Figure 1. A mop or like article being inserted within the device, will be squeezed or wrung, within the said space 23, between the bars 10 and the prongs 11.

After the wringing operation is completed. the operator may let go of the handle 19 and the device will be automatically restored -to its normal position shown in Figurefi,

due to the unstraining action of the spring 20.

hat I claim 1.11131 invention is 1. A device of the character described,

com risin a su ortin element a lurality of rigid circular bands disposed one above the other in spaced relation, a plurality of movable arcuate prongs disposed between said circular bands, an d normally 1n vertical alignment therewlth, means securin said ron 's to ether, means for moving; said iprongs V horizontally V relatively to said circular bands an d means to, return said prongs to theirfnormal positiom sub; a a lylas sr bed-l 21A device offthe'character: described,

is he n spac ela ion,

P9 i normal-1y vertical pron end of said handle, whereby When said handle is operated said prongs Will be moved relatively-to said, ci-rcularbands, and, tension means carrying Lsaid prongs tot their normal position, substantially as described.

3. A device of the character described, comprising a supportingelement, aplurality of rigid circular bands disposed one above the other in spaced relation, a plurality, of vinovable arcua te prongs disposed between said circular bands and normally in vertical alignment therewith, a bar securing id ipropgs e ether, a n e er yinaa one v end a fixed bushing, z t-..loelt; connected at oneflendelto said bushing ;and at its other 21 ether ba e i drr ng get e v. and a tension, spring 7 adapted to,return tially as described.

prongs to their normal position, subsetair f Signedfah Sta LIarys,. Beauce, Quebec,

Canada, this fourteenth of July, 1923;,

STF ARE TR Witne ses l. LAJRU S. S EBE 

